Glossary · Phase 3 · Machine learning
Isolation forest
An anomaly detector that splits the data at random; points isolated in only a few splits are scored as unusual.
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Each dot is a payment scored by a detector. Lower the share that's fraud, then drag the threshold all the way up.
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Anomaly detection · Masking, robust scores with the median and MAD, baselines from the past, isolation forests and thresholds from a review budget. About 35 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- anomaly detection: Finding the points that don't fit the pattern of the rest, usually without labels, and ranking them for people to review.
- median absolute deviation: The median of each value's distance from the median: a measure of spread that a few extreme values can't drag.
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